Power Documentary Movie

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Power Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

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00:00Police power is immediate power, is right now.

00:05Do what I told you to do, right now, or else I decide what happens next.

00:19Policing is inextricably linked to the racial history of this country.

00:24Police associated with colonizers, wealth and whiteness.

00:28So police targeted people marked as non-white.

00:32Slaves, indigenous and working class people.

00:37Police have been able to double down on their power time and time again.

00:41There are a lot of people that feel that policing is out of control.

00:45But it's also the case that there's horrific crime and it also is out of control.

00:54Policing is hard now, it's real hard.

00:56We deal with a lot of murders.

00:59In the United States, police power is essentially unregulated.

01:04Anybody who moves to hold police accountable faces a challenge.

01:09The biggest problem with policing today is that most of the harm that policing causes

01:16is perfectly legal.

01:26How did we get here?

01:35The question breaks down as soon as you ask it.

01:40We may share this country, but is your America and my America the same place as it ever been?

01:50Frederick Douglass said, power concedes nothing without a demand.

01:54And the power that is American policing hasn't conceded anything.

01:59In this kind of democracy, who is more powerful?

02:05The people or the police?

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